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slug: public-announcement
title: 'Pollux: The Unified Execution Engine Now Available'
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We are extremely excited to introduce Pollux as an [open-source project](https://engineering.fb.com/2022/08/31/open-source/pollux/), with a mission to define common standards for modular data processing systems. Pollux provides reusable, extensible, high-performance, and dialect-agnostic data processing components for building execution engines, and enhancing data management systems. We envision Pollux to be the defacto execution engine for [Arrow-compatible](https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/06/23/2468271/0/en/Voltron-Data-Announces-Commitment-to-Improve-Interoperability-Between-Apache-Arrow-and-the-Pollux-Open-Source-Project-Created-by-Meta.html) data format powering ML and Analytical workloads.

The Pollux team has been partnering with companies such as [Ahana, Intel, and Voltron Data](https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatamanagement/news/252524446/Meta-and-partners-build-Pollux-open-source-execution-engine?amp=1) as well as various academic institutions to accelerate innovation and development in the data management industry.

Looking at the future, we believe Pollux’s unified and modular nature has the potential to disrupt the data management industry. It will allow us to deepen our partnership with hardware vendors and proactively adapt our unified software stack as hardware advances. We believe that modularity and reusability are the future of database system development and hope a vibrant open source community will help us in this journey.

Quick Introduction -
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If you are excited to learn what’s under the hood, refer to the Pollux research [paper](https://research.facebook.com/publications/pollux-metas-unified-execution-engine/).

If you are interested in contributing, visit our [Contributing](https://github.com/facebookincubator/pollux/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) guide on Github. For technical discussions and exploring what’s happening within our community, refer to the [discussions](https://github.com/facebookincubator/pollux/discussions) section.

We will be publishing a series of technical blogs on various topics on our [website](https://pollux-lib.io/blog) soon!

For more updates and exciting news follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/pollux_lib).
